Song · Eddie Money
“Baby Hold On” by Eddie Money
From the album Eddie Money (1977)
“Baby Hold On” by Eddie Money appears on 48 radio countdowns from 22 stations between 1982 and 2026. It was first released in 1977 on the album Eddie Money. Its best result is #126 on the KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #483 classic rock song of all time.
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Eddie Money came out swinging on his self-titled 1977 debut, and "Baby Hold On", written with guitarist Jimmy Lyon, was the first single off it. Lyon opens it with a simple, sticky guitar figure, and the song keeps circling that riff while the heat rises: Gary Mallaber on drums, Lonnie Turner on bass, Tom Scott's saxophones, Jo Baker's guest vocal, and Money himself blowing harmonica and sax on top of the lead vocal. Bruce Botnick produced it; Andy Johns recorded and mixed.
Its big refrain leans hard on "Que Sera, Sera", the Jay Livingston and Ray Evans song, and when he was asked about that in 1978 Money shrugged that his music mixed together all kinds of material. It climbed to number 11 on the Hot 100 and number 4 in Canada, and it's still among his best-known songs.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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